Sunday, September 8, 2019

565 - Mrs. Silver's Own Independence Day Display, "Butthanger", and "Come With Me If You Want To Skip"

[8:14 AM] 
So we didn't get real fireworks last night because of the weather. Bummed.
I was looking out my front door when a lightning bolt hit like half a block away.
Actually...while we're ON the topic of spontaneous witchcraft...
[8:15 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
The radar was weird. Storms popped up but mostly stayed stationary and grew
You couldn't even tell what direction they were moving
[8:16 AM] 
(touches nose, points)
(Mrs. Silver, all day) "I really don't know if I wanna go to fireworks...I really don't want to go to the ball game.  I really don't want to go.  It's going to storm.  We should skip it."
So I look at the map close to show time due to ominous thunder. 
And (town) has 1 red clump to the south making noise...Nothing else.
"All clear! Let's go!"
[8:18 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
heh
[8:18 AM] 
We decide to do the top of the parking garage since we skipped the game.
Drive there
All clear
Way off to the south there's some flashes
I drive all the way up...
...And I can see the first rain drops staining the concrete just as we come out on the top deck.
It started the instant we got to the top.
And opened up like a cloudburst with almost zero visibility and lightning all over the place.
We waited
Waited
Waited.
Gave up
Drive home
Little floods all over the whole way...it's horrible...raindrops are gigantic.
I make a noble offer: "Sweetie, I'm going to pull up right in front of the house so you can make the short run to the porch and then I'll go around the block and park."
"Ok, but you don't need to do that, I'll be fine."
"Ok...just offering."
But
30' from the house the rain went from Biblical wrath to light spitting.
Silver Junior and I are glaring at her because "We KNOW you did it." 
[8:28 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
heh
[8:34 AM] 
So we start trying to look at weather reports.
And all we can get from one is a severe thunderstorm possible from Weather.com
Maps won't show anything
"60% chance of rain"
National Weather Service shows...nothing
Mrs. Silver "Should we go back out?" 
"I think so.  It's clearing up."
Deluge begins again as soon as we move towards the door, with close lightning strikes as noted at the start of the story.
"Ok...They're never going to run the show in that.  Let's just forget it.  Watch the Pittsburgh one..."
So we're sitting there...
And very obviously – in the "pouring rain" – the fireworks show is happening out there. 
So for all I know, she had it just raining on our half of town.
The end.
[8:37 AM]  Mr. Brown.:
With her ability to predict things I'd think she should know if its safe.
[8:44 AM] 
She didn't "predict" a damned thing...
[8:45 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
lol
Release the nega particles
So apparently over the hill from me was a micro burst
You know the day that we were talking about the short storms
Big ass trees knocked over
Split
Around my house a there was a twig
lol
[8:41 AM] 
heh
Oh...back to Mrs. Silver witchiness.
We had to have the "When you feel this kinda thing coming on, could you at least direct it towards something we need?" conversation again.
(sings Disney earworm from when I was 6) "Drip drip drop little April shower!"
I never thought I'd be assaulted by "Bambi" music. 
It just popped in there during one of our devastating personal downpours... I think my brain was feeling sarcastic.
[3:41 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I wonder if there were any micro bursts this time
[3:41 PM] 
(Disney death metal version) "Blast Flood Drown Brutal Ju-ly Cloudburst!"



[2:51 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I was watching Cliffhanger yesterday
[2:51 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I never liked that movie for some reason
[3:01 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I was thinking - how much did the actors have to do in that film?
Like climbing wise
Because most of the shots were on actual mountains
[3:16 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I remember thinking it was very obvious when they switched between the outdoor shots and the studio shots.
The lighting was all wrong
[3:17 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Yes it is
But there was a lot of outdoor stuff
[3:18 PM] 
I recall Cliffhanger never did it for me.
[3:19 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
It does not make a lot of sense
The action is cool
[3:19 PM] 
Someone gave us a copy of it years ago.  Still on the shelf un-watched.
[3:19 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I was thinking about that when watching - how does any of this make sense?
[3:21 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Did Stallone show his bare ass in it? I forget if he was able to fit that into the script
[3:22 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
No. Just short shorts
lol
[3:22 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
"Yo uhh what if like, there's a cave on the mountain with a hot spring so my charactuh just wantsa take a dip, y'know?"
I'm going to make a list of Stallone movies where he shows his bare ass.
It's probably like 40% of them.



[3:29 PM]  Mr. Blue:
In 1977, Stallone was nominated for two Academy Awards for Rocky, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He became the third man in history to receive these two nominations for the same film, after Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles.
That's crazy
[3:30 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
He is not a bad actor
[3:30 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Chaplin... Welles... Stallone...
[3:30 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I just think he needs to retire now
lol
[3:30 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
He's a talented guy
I'm a fan
But he's kind of a goof too
[3:30 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Yeah. Right now he is doing whatever he can get his hands on instead of trying to do something original
Other than The Expendables
[3:33 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I think both he and Arnold need to do something different.
Maybe stop being the leading man... Move into character roles, like Stallone did in Guardians of the Galaxy
[3:34 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Secondary characters
[3:34 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah
[3:34 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Shows up and you're like OH YEAH! for a couple scenes and kicks some ass
or does something funny
[3:34 PM] 
Kicks and shows some ass.
[3:35 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Kick! Then swings to the side and sticks it out
[3:36 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I'm not sure what i'd like to see Arnold do
Something with a decent script though
Maybe a villain. Has he done that since Batman?
[3:38 PM] 
Possibly a killer robot from the future who shows his ass
(psychologist) "Oh yeah, back to that.  Why do you have to come through the time thing naked?"
(Kyle) "Something about the matrix wanting butt shots or it wouldn't let you go through."
[3:41 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Come with me if you want to live.”
Eeew! No. You're naked.”
[3:41 PM] 
"Moon me if you want to live."
[3:42 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
The Terminator was a very sloppy terminator killing all the bystanders and stuff.
Its supposed to be a killing machine meant to kill one person
Instead it kills everything around that person
lol
Also I noticed when the terminator hops up on to the curb to go to the phone booth
it suddenly does not look like a killing machine anymore.
lol
[3:50 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
What if it was so sloppy it ended up killing the inventor of its technology instead of Sarah Conner?
[3:51 PM] 
[Silver's brain] ({echo effect} terminator hops up on to the curb.)
Night, exterior. Terminator walks up sidewalk, pump shotgun in hand.
Robot-eye-view registers chalk Hopscotch pattern with pebble in "7". Calculates...derives solution...
Terminator skips the pattern, stoops and picks up pebble.  Finishes.  Turns...
Robot eye view registers chalk Hopscotch pattern and pebble in hand.  Screens start churning as it re-registers.
Terminator pitches pebble.  Starts hopping.
Police called 7 hours later as people start waking up and looking outside.
[3:52 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
His hops start denting the cement
[3:52 PM] 
Yup
Boots worn through, shreds of leg meat hanging off metal bones, dried blood everywhere
[3:53 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
How much does a terminator weigh?  It's gotta be like several times a normal human
Even if the alloy is "lightweight"
[3:53 PM] 
I doubt that, actually
They'd have difficulty functioning and blending in. Flesh damage just running. Environment hazards like mud we could get through would be potentially mission ending. 
Tough as hell?  Yes
[3:55 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Even an elevator
[3:55 PM] 
It probably weighed close to “normal”
[3:56 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Like big dude Arnold weight
[3:56 PM] 
Nod.

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